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]]>By: Rally to restore fatwas « Internet Scofflawhttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4032835
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:05:06 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4032835[...] Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity”, one featured performer was Cat Stevens, a.k.a. Yusuf Islam, who is notorious for endorsing the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against [...]
]]>By: Just Some Points About The Stewart/Colbert Rally In D.C… « Tai-Chi Policyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4032547
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:50:52 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4032547[...] November 1, 2010 Posted by taoist in Politics. Tags: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert trackback It’s ironic that stars from the channel that ‘s had death threats against it’s mos…. But including radical Islamists is apparently the left’s idea of diversity. And they [...]
]]>By: THe Rally to Restore Sanity | From the Lefthttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4031926
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:15:36 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4031926[...] the Rally’s theme of reasonable behavior between people even if your views are opposite. (click here to view) After seeing this piece (or is it “peace” from my perspective) I thought of the scene at [...]
]]>By: Steve Zhttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4031548
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:14:05 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4031548When will anyone be “Restoring Sanity” to Cat Stevens?

Too much crack and pot, Cat Stevens is a crackpot. A true American tragedy.

In the distant past, he was “lookin’ for a hard-headed woman”–may I suggest Lisa Murkowski on a blind date?

In 1980, Ronald Reagan said it was “Morning in America”.

Morning has broken.

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Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:55 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4031547He wants to murder someone for telling the truth and then he has the nerve to sing “Peace Train” ???????
]]>By: Chessplayerhttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4031545
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:13:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4031545Not that it excuses this mind dead Yusuf Islam but he had to endorse this murder fatwa to stay a true Muslim. This is because Islam has always demanded death for apostates, as commanded by Muhammad himself according to his Muslim biographers. Muhammad, according to the absurd-in-so-many-ways Qu’ran, is the perfect man and the prime example who must be obeyed (Sura 4:64, 4:80, etc). Muhammad himself announced these many Koranic revelations about his wonderfulness many times. Critics who disagreed he had assassinated. Read the extremely violent biography of this man based on quoted Muslim sources (See Robert Spencer or Ali Sina) and you ‘ll see for yourself how insane Yusuf and Islam really are.
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Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:28:14 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4030837[...] Indeed, this is really ironic (found). More here. [...]
]]>By: albillhttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4030759
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:59:46 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4030759If one looks at the entire event as satire and sarcasm on current affairs then having “Cat Stevens”/Yusef Islam on the show was part of the joke…it was to portray that he is also a joke, a phoney, a fraud. Like some Mel Brooks comedy satire movie portraying a farcical, but stereotypical Jew loves Muslim scene.
]]>By: dkmonroehttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4030398
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:07:04 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4030398So now Yusef Islam is trying to make the demonstrably false claim that he was “joking” about supporting the fatwa on Rushdie.

It seems that opponents of Western civilization, be they leftist, Islamic, or otherwise, always seem to portray themselves as truth-tellers confronting a decadent civilization founded on lies and treachery. Doesn’t seem ironic that these truth-telling crusaders must so often resort to lies and treachery to advance their cause?

A gardener’s daughter stopped me on my way, on the day I was
to wed.
“It is you who I wish to share my body with”, she said.
“We’ll find a dry place under the sky with a flower for a bed.
And for my joy, I will give you a boy with a moon and
star on his head.”
Her silver hair flowed in the air, laying waves across the sun.
Her hands were like the white sands, and her eyes had
diamonds on.
We left the road and headed up to the top of the
Whisper Wood.
And we walked ’till we came to where the holy magnolia stood.
And there we laid cool in the shade singing songs and
making love…
With the naked earth beneath us and the universe above.
The time was late, my wedding wouldn’t wait; I was sad but
I had to go.
So while she was asleep, I kissed her cheek for cheerio.
The wedding took place and people came from many
miles around.
There was plenty merriment, cider and wine did abound.
But out of all that I recall, I remembered the girl I met.
‘Cause she had given me something that my heart could not
forget.
A year had passed and everything was just as it was a year
before…
As if it were a year before…
Until the gift that someone left, a basket by my door.
And in there lay the fairest little baby crying to be fed;
I got down on my knees and kissed the moon and star on
his head.
As years went by the boy grew high and the village looked
on in awe.
They’d never seen anything like the boy with the moon and
star before.
And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the
word he spread.
I’ll tell you everything I’ve learned, and Love is all…he said.
~
~
~
Cat Stevens associated the moon and star with fornication and alcohol. Jus sayin.

]]>By: Chew on this: Halloween edition « Chockblock’s bloghttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4030005
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:32:47 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4030005[...] Radical who incites violence sings for a political rally in the mall! (Hotair) [...]
]]>By: Texas Mikehttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4029998
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:27:47 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4029998Well, I was going to respond and post a discussion on Joseph Smith versus Mohammed, but since its way off the subject, I won’t do that unless someone is interested.

Yusuf Islam converted to Islam in southern California back in the 70′s after a near death experience. Too bad some Christians did not share the liberating gospel to him before bondage of Islam was shared with him.

However, I believe Yusuf is losing some of his hard-nose zeal for Islam while recovering his love for music and performance.

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Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:48:24 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4029770Crowd estimates for Irony Fest and for Beck rally.
]]>By: chumpThreadshttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4029760
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:42:59 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4029760I think Islam’s remarks about Rushdie were unequivocally wrong and I’d like to think he now regrets them.
That said, no one has anything to fear personally from him, and it was great to hear him sing “Peace Train” again.
]]>By: dedalushttp://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-at-restoring-sanity-rally/comment-page-3/#comment-4029725
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:29:15 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=114435#comment-4029725

Islam is not militarily strong, but it is strong in willpower and when all is said and done that is what counts. Wars are won in the will. Ask the Vietnamese about that.
sharrukin on October 31, 2010 at 1:36 PM

Vietnam has a stock exchange and a US traded ETF. They along with their communist sponsors in Russia and China have ditched communism for some level of a market economy. It wasn’t a twelve-step program or military showdown that led to the transition but the aspiration of the people, not for the Magna Carta, but for consumer goods.

Muslims in the West will find that education and economic prosperity is incompatible with aspects of their culture. It may take them longer, but the pressures will be the same as those on other immigrant groups–most of which were viewed as incompatible with the US culture of the time.

Islam is not militarily strong, but it is strong in willpower and when all is said and done that is what counts. Wars are won in the will. Ask the Vietnamese about that. All the scary weapons in the world are meaningless unless you have the confidence to use them. We lack faith in the worth of our own society, our religion, our culture and our future. They don’t.

There isn’t going to be a pitched battle. They aren’t stupid, and they will come at us in a way that maximizes their advantages and plays to our weakness. Terrorism and social demands contingent on that terrorism have brought them a great deal of power and influence. They will use immigration and the Muslim birthrate to displace and eventually convert the west. First by covert pressure in the form of riots and terror, and latter when they and their leftist facilitators have power, through overt pressure through the levers of government. Lastly they will use conversion by violence.

Read it and weep. The only way for America to survive Islamic Imperialism is to limit immigration and return to its Christian roots so that when Europe falls America still has the strength to resist.

Curbing immigration and assimilating the populations here and in Europe is part of the solution. Islam has less to offer a young person, especially women, than Western culture. We should be confident enough to believe that they are likely to change more than we are in an exchange of ideas.

dedalus on October 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM

Their isn’t going to be an exchange of ideas. You keep thinking that this is some sort of twelve step program. We are not going to be the ones who set the agenda and we have seen how this works with ‘The Road to Peace’ and with the now constant Muslim terrorism. Sharia law is now being adopted, or considered in many western countries as is Sharia finance. Western law has in many cases ignored what Muslim minorities do among themselves and work to curb freedom of expression in the greater community. The cartoon crisis is a case in point.

They will take and you will give.

You seem unable to consider the problem from their point of view. They are winning, so why would they compromise and on what part of the totality that is the Koranic system do you think they will give? Do you think they will let some western lawyers carve up the Koran to make it into a nice version that is acceptable to western thought?

The Magna Carta and the Renaissance are not new things, and ‘The Rights Of Man’ has been on the table for some time. Islam has been there all along and we actually occupied their countries for some time. They know! They have heard about this cool new idea called human rights which has been around for a few centuries. It hasn’t changed a thing, and yet here comes Captain Shazam in a bolt of lightning to tell the Muslims how great things will be if they just get with the program?

Islam is not militarily strong, but it is strong in willpower and when all is said and done that is what counts. Wars are won in the will. Ask the Vietnamese about that. All the scary weapons in the world are meaningless unless you have the confidence to use them. We lack faith in the worth of our own society, our religion, our culture and our future. They don’t.

There isn’t going to be a pitched battle. They aren’t stupid, and they will come at us in a way that maximizes their advantages and plays to our weakness. Terrorism and social demands contingent on that terrorism have brought them a great deal of power and influence. They will use immigration and the Muslim birthrate to displace and eventually convert the west. First by covert pressure in the form of riots and terror, and latter when they and their leftist facilitators have power, through overt pressure through the levers of government. Lastly they will use conversion by violence.

It’s not a religion: it’s a death cult.
And by the way,their resolve was strengthened by 9/11 and other successful jihadi attacks like the Intifada.
Their resolve is strengthened by killing “infidels,” not the mythical blowback of cracking down on them.
See the post-American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan for reference.
Spilling blood strengthens their resolve, not getting shut down.

Military efforts have thrown back the Muslim advance as was demonstrated in Spain during the reconquest, during the Crusades, and in the Balkans when the Ottomans were driven out. Cultural and diplomatic efforts I grant you have resulted in nothing. Bribing them works for very short periods of time.
sharrukin on October 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM

The world has gotten smaller since then, and the cost of killing large numbers of people has become quite small. In a pitched battle we’d have no problem, but that isn’t the threat we face.

Curbing immigration and assimilating the populations here and in Europe is part of the solution. Islam has less to offer a young person, especially women, than Western culture. We should be confident enough to believe that they are likely to change more than we are in an exchange of ideas.